Pilot locked in F22

601XL Builder wrote:
For what a F22 costs you'd think they'd throw in an extra set of keys.

At that point, why not have some fun and try out the ejection seat?

"Just testing, sir. Honest."

TheSmokingGnu

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601XL Builder wrote:
At that point, why not have some fun and try out the ejection seat?

And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays stubbornly
attached? What then?

Vaughn

"Vaughn Simon" wrote in
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"TheSmokingGnu" wrote in message
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601XL Builder wrote:
At that point, why not have some fun and try out the ejection seat?

And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays
stubbornly attached? What then?

BIG headache!

Vaughn Simon wrote:

And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays
stubbornly
attached? What then?

....well, you call 'The Wolf' to help you clean up the mess...

--Sylvain

On Apr 28, 10:31 pm, Sylvain wrote:
Vaughn Simon wrote:
And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays
stubbornly
attached? What then?

...well, you call 'The Wolf' to help you clean up the mess...

"When you came pulling in here, did you see a sign in front of the
hangar that said 'Dead Pilot Storage'? Did you?"

Vaughn Simon wrote:
And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays stubbornly
attached? What then?

The canopy is held onto the aircraft by those explosive bolts. If those
don't remove the canopy's incentive to remain attached, there's not much
you can do about it.

As a bonus, however, the seatback will punch through the canopy first,
and you're wearing that fancy helmet. Worth a shot, at least! :P

TheSmokingGnu

On 29-Apr-2007, TheSmokingGnu wrote:

The canopy is held onto the aircraft by those explosive bolts. If those
don't remove the canopy's incentive to remain attached, there's not much
you can do about it.

As a bonus, however, the seatback will punch through the canopy first,
and you're wearing that fancy helmet. Worth a shot, at least! :P

TheSmokingGnu




I can't speak for the F-22, but I can tell you with the F-4 Phantom, if the
canopy didn't jettison, you couldn't eject. There was no such thing as
ejecting through the canopy. And an F-4s canopy wouldn't have jettisoned if
had been stuck closed as it was on that F-22. That's why they had a great
big knife on each canopy's left rail, to cut your way out if you had to.
With the F-4 (and the F-15) the canopy is jettisoned by shooting unregulated
compressed air into the pneumatic actuator normally used to open and close
the canopy. The canopy would open so fast with the unregulated air that it
would snap off the hinges at the rear. There were NO explosive bolts
involved. If the canopy was already open, you couldn't eject either, as the
canopy jettison system couldn't work.
As I said, I don't know what kind of system the F-22 uses, so the above
might not be pertinent. But I do know ejecting has plenty of potential
injuries and hazards. I think they did the right thing by exhausting all
other avenues, then cutting the pilot out.
Scott Wilson
Phormer Phantom comm-nav avionics tech
F-4C 1980-82, F-4E 1982-86

Vaughn Simon wrote:
"TheSmokingGnu" wrote in message
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601XL Builder wrote:
At that point, why not have some fun and try out the ejection seat?

And if you pull the ejection lever and the canopy STILL stays stubbornly
attached? What then?

Vaughn





Vaughn, Please watch your attributions. There is nothing in the above
that I wrote except the subject line?